When she lost her daughter, Ella lost touch with her granddaughters, and Maggie's 'visit' serves as a catalyst for reconnection. Ella works in a retirement community in Florida, and Maggie's appearance causes quite a stir. As Rose's romantic and professional life is turned upside down, Maggie is sent packing and turns to one last hope, her maternal grandmother she never knew, namely Ella Hirsch (Shirley MacLaine). Finding refuge with her sister, Rose, she proceeds to make life miserable with her carefree attitude and interference that ends in embarrassment and anger for both.

One day Maggie is thrown out of her house by her step mother and dad. (Maggie's obsession with Rose's sexy heels recalls an ongoing theme of television's Sex and the City.) Both sisters lost their psychologically impaired mother to a supposed car accident that affected their family over the years. Her sister, Rose Feller (Toni Collette) is a self conscious, workaholic lawyer who is dating her boss and indulges in her one passion, fashionable dress shoes. Maggie Feller (Cameron Diaz) is an irresponsible, practically illiterate alcoholic who sleeps around and mooches or steals to get by in the world. The result is an enjoyably entertaining comedy/drama featuring a number of topflight performances and some hilarious dialogue. In Her Shoes, a funny and touching book, will speak to anybody who has experienced the connections of big or tiny sisters, who has yearned for a life other than the one the world has prescribed, or who has fantasized about putting anything else on for size.Having previously tackled a wide range of themes in his films, Director Curtis Hanson delves into the love/hate relationship of two disparate sisters in the film, In Her Shoes. Along the way, they’ll run into a colorful array of individuals, borrow shoes, clothing, and boyfriends, and reconcile with their most personal adversaries-each other. Rose and Maggie, the intellect and the beauty, are observed by In Her Shoes as they embark on exploratory excursions. These two women, who have nothing in common but a tragic childhood experience, a mutual ancestor, and identically sized feet, are about to discover how different and similar their families are. She also hopes to persuade her dowdy elder sister to follow a skin-care routine. Maggie longs for fame and money, even though her aspirations of becoming a star on the big screen haven’t materialized. Aged twenty-eight, breathtakingly beautiful, and sporadically employed.

In her shoes novel